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Blog / BY: Bruce Hobson, MD
... Ms Harry was an Indigenous Elder and a patient in my practice who was more focused on the community than on caring ... with similar issues. It is valuable to look at how we practice and how we manage common conditions, like diabetes, ... anonymous EMR data to reflect, measure, and improve our practice. We are able to compare our treatment to other ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... my first 10 years in medicine (1956 to 1966) in general practice. Reading Dr Hawker’s post, I am trying to recall what made me move away from general practice. I graduated from the University of British Columbia ... felt very loyal to our hospital. When I started my medical practice in 1956 I had very few patients initially, so the ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
In July 1956 I was the 18th doctor who entered medical practice on the North Shore of Vancouver. My office was ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... the hospital. In the 1950s and 60s when I was in general practice on the North Shore of Vancouver, my patients, like ... four pillars of what we now call primary care or family practice: (1) providing first contact opportunity for complainants; (2) comprehensiveness in practice (meaning the family doctor is open to all sorts of ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... compassion for patients, we have been urged to achieve the practice through “evidence-based medicine,” ... of Internal Medicine proposes “dediagnosing,” a practice framework for making people feel less ill.  The ... at the time of receiving a pathologic diagnosis. This practice requires close collaboration with the patient; in ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... author of Observationes Medicae , a textbook of bedside practice and observations. Published in 1676, this book was ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... specialties and the impact of societal changes on medical practice. There was an urgent need to review the medical ... The CanMEDS Interactive project  was a move away from the practice of offering credentials to physicians solely on the ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... of 6 and 7 years of age in the early 1930s. As was the practice of the day in my native Hungary, the ...
Blog / BY: Shelley Ross, MD
... it easier for family practices and divisions of family practice to attract new doctors but also to smooth the path ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... a Canadian history course. It was not until I left general practice in 1966 and became part of the academic faculty that ...